He goes on to fault America’s car-centric culture (no surprise there) and poor urban planning (ditto), but the meat of his argument is that an activity—cycling—made marginal by design, isn’t seen as it should be: a convenient way to get around.

While it’s certainly easy to take the cynical position that Colville-Andersen is trying to drum up some American business, it’s hard to deny he has a point. Now, about those bike lanes…